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GPP Examples

City of Vienna

City of Sao Paulo

Information technology systems for public procurement. Service contracts are “virtualized” and GPP products are identified with a state ecolabel.

Chile

Has a unified public procurement platform where SPP/GPP can be implemented efficiently.

China

Central and provincial governments have begun giving priority to products listed in a “green product inventory”.

Costa Rica

Has a national action plan, guidelines, and provides several examples of products and services that have been purchased through an SPP/GPP approach.

Denmark

Is applying innovative legal frameworks to further improve the percentage of overall SPP/GPP. Is working on operationalizing life cycle costing.

Germany

Has strong political drivers, national guidelines and programmes for SPP/GPP; public information resources via websites and ecolabels; use of innovative tools like life cycle thinking and green contract variants.

Ghana

The first African country to implement a fully-fledged SPP/GPP policy.

Japan

Has a very rigorous green building code with stringent product requirements.

Netherlands

100 per cent sustainable acquisition target for government institutions.

Spain

Has a National Action Plan; inclusion of GPP in the Public Contract Law; training and resources for GPP in the Basque Country (ihobe - a public body exemplary for market consultations); GPP guidelines in Madrid City; GPP Manual in the Catalan Government.

Sweden

Working on integrating life cycle costing across the board.

United Kingdom

Developed a standard for sustainable procurement (BS 8903:2010).

*Source: Sustainable Public Procurement: A Global Review. UNEP, 2013

About the project

The GPP-Bhutan project establishes a strategic approach to scale-up public demand for environmentally and socially preferable goods, services and infrastructure. It provides a cross-cutting industrial strategy to support Gross National Happiness and the stewardship of natural resources in Bhutan.